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Other Impressions of Autobiographies, Titles, First Lines, and Other Writing Forms Norman Bel Geddes - industrial designer and theatrical stage designer  (April 27, 1893 – May 8, 1958) "Miracle in the Evening"  - Autobiography from the 1950's   Jennifer Moxley - American poet from San Diego. Now lives and teaches writing in Maine. (1964- ) Stephen King - American author from Maine.  (1947 - )  Has sold over 350 million books. Many of his novels have been made into renowned films  ( Carrie, Shawshank Redemption, the Shining, Misery ).  John Muir - Naturalist and Essay Writer, Environmental Activist (1838-1914). He is the namesake of "Muir Woods" in Marin County. Legend has it that instead of hiking on the path, he would walk from tree branch to tree branch high in the redwoods of northern California.  Partly responsible for the helping establish the National Parks. African-American Poetry (survey of the 20th cent

The color strip on the left is a value study comprised of Burnt Sienna mixed with Ultramarine Blue mixed equally. The right value study is comprised of Alizarin Crimson mixed with Winsor Green Blue shade.  I used the mixed neutrals to do a master copy of a painting by one of my favorite watercolor painters, the Swede Anders Zorn. I divided the painting in half to get practice using both value mixtures. Below is my completed value study using the two value studies above. I also have included the original on which my master copy is based. 

Well this painting kicked my tail. I should have used grisaille to do an underpainting for the feathers. 

Alamoosook Lake, mid-August sunset It was a long, lazy summer afternoon in the town of East Orland, Maine, population 1,825. I was on the shore of Alamoosook Lake, looking out at the water, and all its possibilities glimmered like light on the backs of a school of fish. Without a doubt, it was the hottest week in the state that summer, late July, with trees so green they looked yellow. I was to embark on a motorboat ride with my cousin Colin, three years my junior, into those aforementioned hopes. My grandfather had just acquired a new Evinrude 500 motor that was clasped onto the back of the little tin boat, ("as tinny as a tin can" he used to say) and everything seemed alright. He wasn’t around that afternoon, so without too much supervision my cousin and I proceeded to paddle the boat out, from the shore to just off of it, to a place deep enough to start the motor. It was passed the reeds and patch of cat tails. The waves were tiny, delicately lapping the sides of the

I first started really enjoying the process of drawing heads when I was in high school. Our art teacher, Mrs. Menninghaus, made us simply draw the head and some of the neck of a fellow classmate for an in-class exercise. I think I used a pencil in medium softness. I drew a girl named Keely. Keely Downes. I realized as I was drawing her that her upper lip had a protrusion that dipped down onto the middle part of her bottom lip. Getting that subtlety with the pencil made the mouth look so much more convincing. After Keely, some of my friends wanted me to draw them, and some of them came out looking pretty good. The Warner Bros. animator Chuck Jones once said the fastest way to lose a friend is to draw a picture of them. Luckily none of my friends have ever stopped talking to me because of a poor drawing I did of them. It's hard to draw some people from real life though, especially if they are your friends; I always feel the impulse to talk with them while they are sitting in front of